You make the point that people download these shows etc, and it is costing you/someone money… Your premise is flawed..

its the old argument about how much blood you can squeeze out of a rock. The rock in this case is people who watch shows online. The majority of them , Me included, would buy the show once it was made availiable in dvd format etc. But until that time there is not point..

This post reminds me also about tax on the tax… The content has already been bought and paid for many times over.. Just how much money is enough? Seems thats all people give a damn about anymore.. Money money money.. Anything else that gets in the way is shoved under the bed and forgotten about. .

BTW .. The BBC is a terrorist enabler .. Do your own research if you think i am full of myself. Maybe you will learn something.

I was just talking about this just a few days again and just happened to come across this….

My main bitch with tv, film and broadcasting in general is that despite the fact we supposedly live in a global community and talk to people around the world who are watching and listening to stuff they thing we should see/hear we can’t see or hear it because those who broadcast or distribute content are still using the same methodologies that they’ve used for years. I’d like to see/hear content while it is still current and before it gets cancelled.

I have no issue with paying for content but I’d like to be able to purchase it while it’s current – which, if you live elsewhere you can’t always do. If the content was sold – and the BBC earned money from it from external sources what’s the big deal.

I don’t think it’s all about “we payed for it so it’s all OURS and you can never see it” – I think it’s about coming up with a new broadcasting and distribution system that takes into account payment (so “you can pay for it too”).

A lot of people would be happy to pay for content – the problem is, it’s not available to them even if they are willing.

MAKE IT SO!

We get BBC Canada here, which is basically just a “concentrated” version of all the BBC channels. We get the big shows like Doctor Who and Top Gear. We do have to pay an extra for it, but then I figure the system here is a little different than in Europe.

I dont mind that they dont broadcast all the BBC channels worldwide, but it does annoy me when I cant access web content and get a message saying “sorry, not available in your country”. I can understand that it would need lots of bandwidth to make videos available to everybody on the planet, but it’s too plain obvious that BBC can afford it.

Top gear rocks, seriously. I dont give a flying bunny about the cars, but just listening to the guys makes me laugh till I lose my breath every times. They are the best hosts ever. Besides, I get to know more about the British slangs… and that reminds me I still have to look up where the word “rubbish” comes from.

Surely there’s a way of allowing foreign viewers access to the delights that Brits take for granted. I hope Auntie Beeb catches
on soon, as there’s a lot of good stuff gathering dust in the vaults
that deserves to be shown to new eyes.

Perhaps (and I’m sure it’ll play some part) it’s because those stations aren’t too keen on “less mainstream” productions, those that aren’t a guarantee hit, but the BBC is an established name and in my experience pretty much eveything it makes comes with the potential to appeal thanks to the great skills it’s made with.

Also, there’s one thing that you perhaps aren’t aware of, or consider a minor triviality > there are a select number of nearby countries that get BBC 1 and 2, pretty much for scraps.
Like Belgium for example (and you have an easy way to verify that)

We’re not those who “fund” the BBC, and still get it in our standard cable subscription pack. It’s been included in that package for decades.

And I’ve had my share of Saterday mornings and afternoons in front of the TV with coffee or chocolate milk and a good BBC show, or when I was sick at home… the BBC was on in our house just as often (or in some occasions even more often) than our own stations.

I’m sure that a part of the monthly cable subscription fee will find it’s way towards the BBC, but… considering the rather average price on that pack I’m not sure if the sum of all those tiny fractions of all our monthly bills that go towards the UK is anywhere near in comparison to what the people across the channel are paying…

I doubt this situation is likely to change, seeing as how everybody over here is so used to having (a partial fraction of) genuine BBC quality in the standard package, they’ll get outraged if it would go.
I for one was displeased when they took out BBC World.

In extension: we get some French stations, German, Italian, Turkish, some from Holland, Spain and 1 American over here in BE, all in that standard cable pack…
I can’t deny we’re quite spoiled on that matter, but we love it and pay for it (even tho it’s probably not as much as you)

Of course, it’s “just BBC 1 and 2″, which is only a portion of what the BBC uses it’s money for… and that goes to say for all the stations from abroad > it’s generally 1 or 2 stations, 3 at the most, so perhaps the BBC considers whatever money comes from us as “extra”?

Anyhoo, for now, I’ll gladly go down on my bare knees and ask you not to block those 2 BBC stations for us, we need them too badly to show the guys over here how it’s done.